manu-, man-, mani-, mandat-, manda-

1. A contrary command to cancel or reverse (a previously issued command or order).
2. Cancellation of an order or command.
3. To annul by recalling or rescinding.

1. To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager.
2. To claim as just or due: "The bank demanded repayment of a loan."
3. To ask to be informed of: "I demand a reason for this interruption."
4. To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; to call for: "This is a gem that demands a fine setting."
5. In law: To summon to court; to claim formally; lay legal claim to.

1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; to liberate.
2. In law, to release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.
3. The age at which a person is granted by law the rights (as the ability to sue) and responsibilities (as liability under a contract) of an adult.
4. Etymology: This word comes from Latin emancipare, which originally meant "free from parental power". This was a compound verb that was formed from the prefix ex-, "out of" and mancipium, "ownership:; and referred in Roman law to the freeing of a son from the legal authority of the male (pater) head of the family (patria potestas), thus making him responsible for himself in law.

The association of the verb with the "freeing of slaves", the basis of the present English meaning, is a modern development.

1. The act or an instance of emancipating.
2. The condition of being emancipated.

Someone who advocates emancipation; especially, an advocate of the freeing of human beings from slavery.

1. Someone who emancipates.
2. Someone who frees others from bondage; for example, "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator."

1. A display of skill or cleverness, especially for deceitful purposes; trickery; deception: "She performed a dazzling display of political legerdemain."
2. Sleight of hand; magic tricks; any illusory feat.
3. Etymology: from about 1430, "conjuring tricks", from Middle French (as written and spoken approximately between 1400-1600) léger de main, "quick of hand" from léger, "light" in weight. Previously from Latin levis, "light" plus Latin main (manus), "hand".